They acknowledged that while Dani’s emotional reaction was difficult to watch, they said viewers should expect “emotionally charged scenes” and “scenes [which] have been engineered to test contestants’ relationships”.

Dani herself defended the stunt during an interview with The Sun, saying: “Oh listen, they’ve got to make a TV show. If I weren’t crying the viewers would drop.

“Yeah it was hard, it was a test for me and Jack. But we got back together. We had the up, we had the down — and now we’re up.”